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- "Pasteurized-Pure" Drinking Water Carton Used on the Santa Fe Railroad - Chartered in 1859, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway connected Chicago with southern California via the southwestern United States. This carton, which contained drinking water, was likely distributed to Santa Fe work crews. It featured the railroad's logo, an illustration of a worker alongside a railroad track, and a reminder to be safe on the job.
- Collections - Artifact
"Pasteurized-Pure" Drinking Water Carton Used on the Santa Fe Railroad
Chartered in 1859, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway connected Chicago with southern California via the southwestern United States. This carton, which contained drinking water, was likely distributed to Santa Fe work crews. It featured the railroad's logo, an illustration of a worker alongside a railroad track, and a reminder to be safe on the job.
- Trade Card for Silver Leaf Lard, Swift & Company, 1870-1900 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1880-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Silver Leaf Lard, Swift & Company, 1870-1900
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.